"She is god of Death.

Her name is Little Bonsa or Small Swimming Head; she is wife of Big Bonsa or Great Swimming Head." Again there was laughter, though less general--for instance, neither Sir Robert nor Mr.Champers-Haswell laughed.

This merriment seemed to excite Jeekie.

At any rate it caused him to cease his stilted talk and relapse into the strange vernacular that is common to all negroes, tinctured with a racy slang that was all his own.
"You want to hear Yellow God palaver ?" he said rapidly.

"Very well, I tell you, you cocksure white men who think you know everything, but know nothing at all.